WikiWikiWeb 1. What are Wiki Technologies? 2. What is Wikipedia? 3. What is the history of the Wiki? 4. Advantages and benefits in the corporation? 5. What are the disadvantages and problems with it? 6. What types of societal, economic and technical challenges this technology could address? 7. How might a Wiki improve things for a business and how do you get started? Wiki
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WikiWikiWeb
1. What are Wiki Technologies?2. What is Wikipedia?3. What is the history of the Wiki?4. Advantages and benefits in the corporation?5. What are the disadvantages and problems with it?6. What types of societal, economic and technical
challenges this technology could address?7. How might a Wiki improve things for a business and
how do you get started?
Wiki
What are Wiki Technologies ?
• It’s a database
• It’s a collaboration platform
• It does not require the user to be a programmer or know HTML to use it.
What is Wikipedia ?
“THE Wiki”
• Conceived and born in January, 2001
• Put the Wiki technology platform in public eye
• It is the worlds largest FREE multilingual encyclopedia with over 3.2 million English articles.
There are many forms of Wikis today:• Hybrid • Blogs and Discussion forums• Content Management Systems• Semantic Wikis• Enterprise Wikis• Personal Wikis • Mobile Wikis
What are the benefits to businesses ?
Collaboration between workgroups, divisions, HQ
Multi-user
Can be edited and updated by any authorized personnel
Does not require specialized knowledge or training
What are the benefits to businesses ?
Document revision control
Maintain revision history, comments, discussions at all levels
Retains documentation revisions for regulatory requirements
What are the benefits to businesses ?
Business methodology and knowledge retention
Published methods can be updated and refined in real time
Legacy knowledge is documented and retained in one source.
Speeds training of end users on company policy, history, culture, division practices and workgroup workflow.
What are the advantages to businesses ?
Cost – Most are free. Support – Can be purchased as needed. Ease of use – little end user training
required Increased speed of information updates Reduction in new hire training costs Reduction of paper use Reduction in travel expenses
What problems or issues exist ?
• Free Wikis do not have the Enterprise class security built into the free models. Anyone authorized can modify the content at will.
• Enterprise security is not available in any free Wiki.
• Enterprise security is available only with commercialized versions of Wikis.
• Little or no support for Microsoft SQL in all but two Wikis
What Societal, Economic & Technological challenges can this address ?
1. What are Wiki Technologies?2. What is Wikipedia?3. What is the history of the Wiki?4. Advantages and benefits in the corporation?5. What are the disadvantages and problems with it?6. What types of societal, economic and technical
challenges this technology could address?7. How might a Wiki improve things for a business and